Billy Duncan was born on Inverway Station in the Northern Territory in 1947. He has four children and now resides at Kununurra in Western Australia.

He is of Jaru (desert) skin, however his medium is ochre. He paints the country where he worked as a stockman – Inverway, Nicholson and Mistake Creek Station.

Billy has been painting for approximately 10 years, working in both landscape and dot art pieces. His vast knowledge of country and stories provides an ever lasting inspiration for his works.

As one of the few ochre dot art specialists applying this technique, his works have attracted a great deal of attention and are included in major corporate and private collections.

Evelyn Pultara
Country: Utopia, NT
Language Group: Anmatyerre

Winner of the 2005 Telstra Art Awards Evelyn started painting in 1997.

Her earlier works depicted traditional themes of bush tucker and Awelye - Women's Ceremony. Her works currently depict her totem - the bush yam.

Kim West Napurrula

DOB: c. 1960
Born: KIWIRRKURRA, GIBSON DESERT

Kim West Napurrula is a Pintubi woman born near Kiwirrkurra, south of Lake Mackay, in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia. Her country is around Marrapinti, a significant Women's Dreaming site, and incorporates soakages in desert country that runs along the Northern Territory and Western Australian border.

In her paintings Kim Napurrula depicts her traditional country, and the Women's ceremonies and Jukurrpa (Dreaming) of her Pintupi people. She currently lives at the community at Kiwirrkurra.

Kim has worked with Papunya Tula and her works have been exhibited around the country.

Lindsay Bird Mpetyane
C: 1940
Region: Akaye Soakage (Mulga Bore), Utopia, Northern Territory
Language Group: Eastern Anmatyerre

One of the leading male artists from Utopia, Lindsay Bird Mpetyane is a senior law man and depicts theme's of men's law in his paintings.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
National Gallery of Australia
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney;
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne;
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;
Art Gallery of Western Australia;
Holmes a Court;
Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica
USA,
Artbank

Polly (Poly) Ngala was born in 1940 into the Anmatyarre tribe, she is the sister of artists Kathleen Ngala and Angeline Pwerle Ngala.

Polly Ngala began her artistic career in batik in the early late 1970s, like many of the women in Utopia, before venturing into painting with acrylic paints on canvas. Polly often assisted her sister Kathleen and also the late Emily Kngwarrey with whom she shared the same country. Together with her sisters, Polly is a senior custodian of the Bush Plum Dreaming.

Polly's depicts the Bush Plum (Arnwekety) and its effects on her country. She often depicts the topography in shades of reds, oranges and yellows reflecting the varying seasonal palette. Also depicted in are designs associated with ‘Awelye’ - Women’s Business and ceremonial law, while others portray personal totems and bush tucker.

Like her sister Kathleen she builds up layer upon layer of colour creating a multi-dimensional effect to reveal the Bush Plum Ankwety - and her country - Alparra in all its glory.

Polly has exhibited widely with exhibitions galleries around Australia and overseas, in France and the UK.

References to her work can be found in: Brody, A., 1989, Utopia Women's Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89, exhib. cat., Heytesbury Holdings, Perth. (C) ; Brody, A., 1990, Utopia: a Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings Ltd, Perth. (C); Aboriginal Artists Dictionary of Biographies - Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region, written by Janusz B.Kreczmanski & Margo Birnberg

Collections:

The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth;
1988 Aboriginal "Dot" Painting, Melbourne;
1992 Modern Art - Ancient Icon, The World Bank, Washington, USA

Topsy comes from the Papunya region west of Alice Springs. Her language is Luritja and she was born in 1956.

Walangkura Napanangka is a prominent Western Desert artist. Her highly collectable pieces symbolise the great tradition of the Western Desert art movement.

Walangkura has exhibited widely and is in major collections, both in Australia and overseas.